Alex Buono, DP for SNL, discusses how his team uses the Adobe Creative Cloud toolset to meet the considerable demands of producing the shorts for Saturday Night Live. Switching from Final Cut Pro to Premiere Pro has helped save valuable time thanks to Dynamic Link and broad native camera format support.

Join After Effects product manager Steve Forde for a sneak peek to see the new features coming soon to After Effects. Along with the new Live Text Template and Masking and Tracking integration with Premiere Pro, After Effects artists will love the new keying effects for getting better results from compressed or badly-shot blue or green screen footage with the new Key Cleaner effect, especially in conjunction with the new Spill Suppressor effect for controlling color spills.
In addition, the After Effects CC update includes Kuler integration, so users can capture colors on their iPhone or in their browser and save them as color swatch themes, to use in motion graphics compositions, or as references for VFX work. Typekit integration provides access to over 700 fonts in the Adobe Typekit library, and the improved Media Browser makes it easy to navigate, including complex media types, such as P2 and XDCAM material.

Copy and paste an effect, mask, or other properties from one layer to another so that the pasted instance has a live link to the original. Changes that you make to the original properties are reflected in the linked instances.

Analyze your footage up to 80% faster with new speed enhancements added to both the Warp Stablizer VFX and the 3D Camera Tracker. Inclusion of the NVIDIA OptiX 3.0 library improves performance and stability for the ray-traced 3D renderer.

After Effects CC has evolved over the past few months since its original release in June, 2013. See new features that provide efficient masking options, preserve image details when upscaling, and other workflow enhancements that help you produce your best work.

Quickly create a mask and apply an effect such as color correction that travels frame by frame throughout your composite. Mask Tracker eliminates the need to adjust the mask and effect throughout time and avoids repetitive rotoscoping tasks.

Check out how Stephen Lawes and Venti Hristova from Cantina Creative designed with After Effects and Cinema 4D the motion graphics and visual effects in Iron Man 3. Also, Navarro Parker, an Emmy-winning motion graphics animator, talks about After Effects and Illustrator to build the interface work on Oblivion.

Photographers will often tell you that "It's all about the lighting", and this sneak experiments with playing with lighting after the fact. Tweak image lighting based on selected samples, and turn your home movies into blockbuster hits (or at least make them look the part) by adjusting lighting modeled on any movie you choose. It is early prototype technology that we are working on in our development labs. This is not part of Photoshop CC or After Effects CC, but is an example of capabilities that we could include in future years.

It's the end of hard matte lines. Keep the details when separating complicated foreground elements like frizzy hair or motion-blurred edges from complex backgrounds. This means you can create natural-looking composites without keying specially shot footage.

Scenes from popular 3D modeling and animation software CINEMA 4D can be used directly as footage inside After Effects CC without the need to render first. This eases roundtripping between the programs and opens up numerous creative possibilities.

Listen in on an interview with David Simons, one of the original creators of After Effects, and Steve Forde, After Effect's product manager. They will take you on a trip down memory lane on the thoughts behind After Effects and what its impact has been on the industry.

Find out what makes Adobe After Effects Next an essential upgrade for animators, compositors and designers. Jason Levine of Adobe and Mathias Omotola of Maxon show the new Live 3D Pipeline between Cinema 4D and After Effects. Other exciting features are the new Refine Edge that makes rotoscoping easier and the more flexible Warp Stabilizer VFX.

After Effects has evolved throughout the past 20 years to make rotoscoping a less eye-bleeding task. Check out how After Effects has changed throughout the years and get a sneak peek at the evolution of rotoscoping.

Place and track 3D elements on 2D footage for precise visual effects and motion graphics. The 3D camera tracker automatically analyzes 2D footage in the background and places elements on that footage, with complete control over depth of field, shadows, and reflections.

See how Premiere Pro is the "secret weapon" of any After Effects animator or compositor, and how you can work faster than ever before in After Effects by leveraging the power of the Mercury Playback Engine in Premiere Pro. For those not familiar with Premiere Pro, we'll impart simple key techniques to get up-to-speed on Premiere Pro much quicker than you ever thought possible.

See how Premiere Pro is the "secret weapon" of any After Effects animator or compositor, and how you can work faster than ever before in After Effects by leveraging the power of the Mercury Playback Engine in Premiere Pro. For those not familiar with Premiere Pro, we'll impart simple key techniques to get up-to-speed on Premiere Pro much quicker than you ever thought possible.

Mathias Möhl (http://www.mamoworld.com/) has developed an excellent script for AE users: mochaImport. In this video Mathias, teaches how use the script for intermediate composite techniques in After Effects and shows how to recreate an HP commercial look of frozen and unfrozen pictures within a picture frame.

Mathias Möhl (http://www.mamoworld.com/) has developed an excellent script for AE users: mochaImport. In this video Mathias, teaches how use the script for advanced composite techniques in After Effects.

Mathias Möhl (http://www.mamoworld.com/) has developed an excellent script for AE users: mochaImport. In this great video Mathias, teaches how use the script for advanced composite techniques in After Effects. He inserts mechanics into his arm using only planar tracking techniques available in mocha, and 2D elements in After Effects.

Learn how to deliver cinematic visual effects and sophisticated motion graphics with Adobe After Effects CS5.5 software, now with sophisticated stabilization, new lens and lighting effects, and the most efficient performance ever.

In the real world, light intensity diminishes naturally the further lit objects are from the light source. The Light Falloff feature in After Effects CS5.5 gives you the controls you need to simulate natural illumination falloff in a 3D scene—or create other light intensity effects.

Learn how to configure After Effects to use RAM and CPUs as appropriate for your computer system, your footage, and your project needs. You'll also see what hardware factors affect performance and what improvements can be made to increase performance.

Colors are represented as red, green, and blue channels, and there's an additional channel that defines transparency – the alpha channel. In this video, you'll see how to control how you view the information about these channels.

Join Dennis as he discusses and shows a workflow that provides flexibility when using Dynamic Link and After Effects. After Effects plus Premiere Pro make for a unique and powerful combination for content creators. This workflow provides flexibility within Premiere Pro to allow users the ability to jump back or rebuild the effect if they find their first attempt wanting.

Picking up from the last time, watch Dennis as he takes the Photoshop file created from our picture and bring it into After Effects to give it life, movement and the pursuite of 3D. Learn some basics of animating a still inside of After Effects with this tutorial.

Picking up from the last episode, learn how to take your custom DVD menu designed in Adobe Photoshop into Adobe Encore to author it as part of a DVD. Then jump into Adobe After Effects to create an animated menu open that will make your final product pop.

In part 6 of this series, you'll learn how to bring a Photoshop document into Adobe After Effects CS5 and then animate the various layers using rotation key frames to form the final shot for your composition.

In this episode, you'll learn how to group animated elements together in Adobe After Effects CS5 to create a unified motion. This process is called Parenting. You'll also learn how to use Null Objects to group motion together.

Continue your education in Adobe After Effects CS5 by learning how to use masks to reveal different layers of your composition. Also covered is how to duplicate text from another composition so that you can reanimate in different ways.

In part 2 of this series, you'll continue to expand your knowledge of Adobe After Effects CS5 by learning how to fine tune your animation. Learn how to use keyframes as well as spatial and temporal interpolation to allow elements in your motion title sequence to smoothly slide in and out of place.

The best way to learn something is by doing it! In this series you'll learn the basics of compositing and animating in Adobe After Effects CS5 by creating a dynamic motion title sequence. This first episode covers animation terminology, the After Effects workspace, commonly used tools and basic motion.

Jim Geduldick, After Effects artist at Offhollywood and leader of the popular AENY user group, shows how the new features in After Effects CS5—as well as new 64-bit plug-ins from The Foundry—are being used in production.

Join Dennis as he does the second part of a tutorial on creating exciting 3D text inside of After Effects with no 3rd party plugins. The final piece is something you'll want to see and learn so you can do the same!

In response to an email question, Kush wanted to find out ways to fake a 3D reflection on a flat plane in Adobe After effects. Now he is left only with a set of clues in the form of what sounds like a poem.

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